Solid waste recovery system

A combined physical and chemical process for recycling of solid waste into recoverable resources comprising the steps, in sequence, of;

• providing a facility having a tipping floor and a plurality of conveyors,
• receiving and dumping refuse on said tipping floor of said facility,
• separating the refuse on the tipping floor into non-compostable, recyclable, and compostable items,
• further separating said non-compostable items into recyclable inorganic items and into non-compostable organic items,
• containerizing said recyclable inorganic items for resale to appropriate markets,
• further separating said non-compostable organic items into hospital and clinical wastes and into petroleum products,
• incinerating said hospital and clinical wastes and sending said incinerated material to a hazardous waste facility,
• further separating said petroleum products and sending certain ones to a landfill, incinerating certain other ones and sending said incinerated material to a hazardous waste facility, and returning certain other ones to said tipping floor facility for recycling,
• said step of separating said solid waste including removing any large wood items present and sending them to a wood chipper and mixing said wood chips with other compostables for conversion into compost,
• separating and removing recoverable cardboard and paper items from said solid waste,
• blending non-recoverable cardboard and paper items with said compostable material for grinding into fine particles for processing into compost,
• blending said mixture of compostable items, wood chips, and non-recoverable paper and cardboard items and grinding the blend into fine particles of compostable material,
• placing said fine particles into transport containers and sending them to a compost pad configured such that water or residue from composting material will run off into a holding pond and having a protective covering to prevent seeping or leaching of liquid residue into the earth or water supply,
• dumping said fine particles from said transport containers onto a compost pad in windrows,
• mixing said fine particles of compostable material with bacteria, chemicals or other organic matter operable to initiate composting by initiating the decaying process of said fine particles of compostable material and of the organic substances contained therein,
• curing said decayed compost material by
• pumping water onto said compost windrows,
• manipulating and blending said windrows of fine particle material until consistent in texture,
• subjecting samples of said blended materials to a carbon:nitrogen ratio test, and
• if the ratio is determined to be an unsatisfactory percentage, adding additional chemicals to said blended materials to obtain a predetermined proper ratio,
• checking and recording the temperature of said blended materials,
• checking and recording the moisture of said blended materials and adjusting the moisture if required,
• after said blended materials have been determined to have the predetermined carbon:nitrogen ratio, temperature, moisture, and chemical or bacterial content, manipulating said blended moisture again and allowing them to cure, p1 after curing, sifting and grading said cured compost material,
• returning the coarser composted material unsuitable for use as compost to said compost pad for re-composting, and
• weighing, bagging, and sealing said sifted compost material for resale to appropriate markets suitable or use as compost or fertilizer.